The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced